Hello was hoping that someone would be kind enough to save my hairline. Goal: boot to ghost.exe with usb2 support to image load harddisk. I can get this to work at USB 1.1 speeds. It takes 2 hours. Symptom: Can boot to command prompt without USBASPI.SYS. With USBASPI.SYS it installs the ASPI manager but then cannot find the command.com file, and any other file after invoking in config.sys device=usbaspi.sys. I suspect that it loses track of the path to disk after loading usbaspi.sys. How do I get it to keep track of the path to disk? I have tried many different solutions from many different website, I have read the big usbaspi thread on this site and it always runs in to a problem with not finding the command.com file "Enter name of Command Interpreter (for example, C:\Windows\Command.com) c>" There quite obviously is something that I do not understand or have missunderstood, as I have tried this on a number of different comps and USB. I am (almost desperately) hoping someone can steer me straight on this as, as far as I can tell this should work. Yours hopefully SvIT option USBCD loads usbaspi.sys Config.sys [menu] MENUITEM=cd,CD menuitem=USBCD, Start computer with (USB) CD-ROM support. MENUITEM=USBDOS,USB DOS MENUITEM=intel1,Intel Pro/100 MENUITEM=intel1k,Intel Pro/1000 MENUITEM=hp,Broadcom MENUITEM=3com,3Com MENUITEM=wmware,WMware menudefault=USBCD,30 [cd] LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICE=c:\CD\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:mscd001 [USBCD] DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF DOS=HIGH,UMB SWITCHES=/F BREAK ON SHELL=c:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024 FILES=60 BUFFERS=30 STACKS=9,256 Lastdrive=Z DEVICE=oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001 DEVICE=USBASPI.SYS /V /NORST DEVICE=USBCD.SYS /D:USBCD001 DEVICE=DI1000DD.SYS [USBDOS] rem --------------- Stacks=9,256 device=himem.sys /testmem:off rem device=aspiehci.sys device=usbaspi.sys /v/w rem device=usbcd.sys /d:usbcd001 LASTDRIVE = Z rem --------------- [intel1] DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net\Intel1 DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos DEVICE=\net\Intel1\E100B.dos [intel1k] DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net\Intel1k DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos DEVICE=\net\Intel1k\E1000.dos [hp] DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net\B57 DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos DEVICE=\net\B57\B57.dos [3com] DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net\3Com DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos DEVICE=\net\3com\el90x.dos [wmware] DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net\WMware DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos DEVICE=\net\WMware\pcntnd.dos AUTOEXEC.BAT @echo off prompt $p$g GOTO %CONFIG% REM -------- set EXPAND=YES SET DIRCMD=/O:N set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15 set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C cls call setramd.bat %LglDrv% set temp=c:\ set tmp=c:\ path=%RAMD%:\;c:\;%CDROM%:\ copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NUL set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com copy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NUL copy viktigt.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL :ERROR IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT echo S„tt i Windows 98 Stardiskett 2 echo. pause GOTO ERROR :EXT %RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NUL echo De diagnostiska verktygen har laddats till enhet %RAMD%. echo. REM -------- :intel1 \net\netbind.com GOTO net_ghost :intel1k \net\netbind.com GOTO net_ghost :hp \net\netbind.com GOTO net_ghost :3com \net\netbind.com GOTO net_ghost :wmware \net\netbind.com GOTO net_ghost :cd c:\cd\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /l:q cd \ghost echo Loading... ghost -fni -rb -sure GOTO end :net_ghost set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com cd \ghost echo Loading... ghost -fni -rb -sure GOTO end :end

The problem is, that you boot of USB drive that is emulated as an ordinary drive by bios. Once you load USB drivers, emulation stops - C: drive no longer exist. I see only two solutions: 1: do not use USB drivers 2: create a ram drive before you use USB drivers and copy the needed files to it. Of course copying files while inside config.sys can be tricky, but 4dos command interpreter (command.com replacement) can be used *inside* config.sys to "execute some initial batch jobs". See 4help (part of 4dos package) "Starting 4dos" for explanation. 4dos download page: http://www.4dos.hit.bg/ BTW I didnt try to do all of that...

"...kind enough to save my hairline..." ... ya just a (future) suggestion, create another partition, copy ghost image to it. ... either make that partition bootable or use the CD...(dos bootloader + bat file(s)ghost.exe blah blah ;) ... use the ghost option (or script) restore image to partition. ... restoring @ least 4 times faster than usb2 + less hairloss Grrrr wat do I know? ... got brain freeze

Hi Svit, I was curious, did you manage to solve this problem? I have a similar situation where i need to push an image from DOS I am booting from my USB device and can push the image to the local IDE disk however it seems to take a good few hours to push a one gig file out. I was under the impression loading the USB 2.0 (USBASPI.SYS) drivers would speed this up greatly. did you ever manage to get this working? Mickey the Fish.